This international conference is an opportunity for experienced researchers, young researchers and PhD students to share their scientific work in an interdisciplinary context and to take part in the debates over various approaches and case studies related to dialogic turn, participatory democracy, and the latest forms of citizen engagement and mobilization. Presentations based on empirical research and on sound theoretical approaches are invited for the 7th edition of Understanding Transition (Voices of the voiceless: New challenges of mobilization and citizen engagement) conference.
The eleventh edition will be held online on 22 and 23 September 2025, hosted by the University of Enna «Kore», and in person from 24 to 26 September 2025 at the University of Palermo.
We invite scholarly papers and/ or creative practice- based presentations to reflect the centrality of the planetary in film and
screen media, with consideration for the context of the environmental emergency.